Shade Quotes

620 Shade quotes by 491 unique authors

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… — James Russell Lowell
The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or… — John F. Kennedy
Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. — Michael Dolan
A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. — Homer
When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to… — Louis L'Amour
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure… — Samuel Johnson
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. — Mason Cooley
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however… — Robertson Davies
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That… — Lionel Trilling
The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to… — Louis D. Brandeis
In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility… — Frederick Lenz
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white. — Rebecca Solnit
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more… — Galina Vishnevskaya
It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the… — Richard Lederer
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context. — Alfred Marshall
It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40… — Denene Millner
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as… — Olivia Williams
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… — Gerhard Richter
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the… — Joseph Needham
If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade… — Jenny Eclair
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which… — Jules de Goncourt
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement… — Wyndham Lewis

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